2010s

Appendices

Nubrick (1986)

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 160 x 120

Private collection, Melbourne

First shown in HA Tolarno 9/86. According to Alison Burton, Arkley was unhappy with this work on technical grounds. Nevertheless, its unusually dark tonality lends it a particularly brooding, ‘unhomely’ quality; for remarks on this idea of the malign aspect of suburbia, of which this is a key example in Arkley’s oeuvre, see discussion in both Spray and Carnival.